Bangladesh: Hasina's bank accounts to be frozen

August 03, 2007 14:20 IST

The Bangladesh revenue board has asked all banks to freeze accounts of detained former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her five family members and several other high-profile leaders, officials said in Dhaka on Friday.

The central intelligence cell of the National Board of Revenue has sent a list of 55 people including Hasina and some charities to all commercial banks and the savings directorate with a direction to freeze their accounts.

The others included former foreign minister M Morshed Khan of ex-premier Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party government and his family members, ex-BNP state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and his relatives and former vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Prof MA Hadi and detained former president of the apex body of the country's